Digital photo frames

Digital photo frames typically display the pictures directly from a camera's memory card, though some frames also provide internal memory storage. Certain frames allow users to directly upload pictures to the frame's memory via a USB connection. However, few digital photo frames have built-in memory and, due the high price of built-in memory this feature has been seen mostly on high-end frames, and the memory provided has been relatively small.

All digital photo frames can display JPEG pictures on its screen. Most will display the photos as a slideshow, usually with an adjustable time interval. Some can also send photos to your printer.

However, others support additional multimedia content, including movie clips recorded in a digital camera's movie mode, MPEG video files and/or MP3 audio, set as soundtrack to your slideshow.

Certain frames can also load pictures over the Internet from RSS feeds, photo sharing sites such as Flickr, Picasa, FrameChannel and even from e-mail. Such networked models usually support wireless (802.11) connections.

Other ones can display .txt files. Digital photo frames represent an advance on the old paper photo albums, because you don’t have to pull them off the shelf to look at them, and they’ll turn the pages for you!